Personally, I practically never take a coat _on_ an airplane
Generally I would say that is a good idea. And being as winter is almost over it soon won't matter. However, in my own experience I would say I tend to end up boarding from the tarmac (rather than the jetway) on average about 60% of the time, and that fraction doesn't change appreciably one way or the other as the seasons change. While the tarmac isn't that bad on its own, I seem to always end up delayed on the tarmac waiting to get on the plane, while they position the staircase, deal with gate-check (tarmac-check, really) baggage, wait for slow-moving passengers to find their seats, etc... A couple minutes exposed to tarmac weather can really mess up the traveling mojo.
Of course, it can become a chicken-and-egg sort of problem, if I'm waiting on the tarmac because all the passengers that were ahead of me in line are taking off their coats on the plane and stuffing them overhead before everyone is even on the plane.
So you get to keep your laptop in a bag (though not the one you're carrying it in, because that one has zippers). You still have to
Take off your shoes
Empty your pockets
Remove any coat you may be wearing
Take off a watch if you have one on
Wait for your train of bins - including the all-important laptop-only bin - to all make it to the scanner before you walk through the scanner yourself
So really, that saves you how much inconvenience? I think I'd prefer to go with a cheaper bag and keep the remainder for airport food while I wait the required 1-2 hours for my domestic flight.
I didn't see anything about them picking this up from multiple keyboards. It isn't that often that you encounter one person on one computer, really. I suspect it could be quite a bit more difficult to figure out the typing of 4 users sitting around you at the airport with laptops (to say nothing of the probable response in an airport elicited by someone using an oscilloscope).
Really worked well for these guys, and of course these guys, too. Sounds like a great idea to apply to more retailers. I wonder, can I buy an extended warranty on a case of pens from Office Depot as well? Damned things keep breaking on me.... And how about these? They might break, too.
They would've gained more ground by propping up Buckley's corpse.
They've done frighteningly well with puppet presidents in recent memory (Reagan, Bush II, in particular). One would have expected that after turning John Sidney McCain III into a marionette that they would have done quite well there as well. Really, what could have possibly gone wrong with that iron-clad plan?
So there certainly is money available for this type of work. And for those not familiar with grant funding by the US government, the NIH is the single largest grant provider for the life science in the US.
I have several systems with onboard NICs, and even onboard wireless NICs, that worked fine right off the bat.
desktop oriented FreeBSD (that's not their goal either, but I digress)
Their motto still is
The Power To Serve
So I would say they aren't all that worried about desktop, yes
I think an argument could be made that anyone who loads FreeBSD on their desktop probably didn't really understand the purpose of FreeBSD to begin with...
It is almost more difficult to find wrong hardware for FreeBSD. Granted, it doesn't support quite as many systems as NetBSD, but unless you are running something quite odd it is likely you can run FreeBSD on it. Hell, most systems that are being thrown away right now can run it just fine.
because of their pour stocking policy, especially with respect to sales. To have a sale on an item, and then only have 5 of them in stock is ridiculous.
In that regard, circuit city failed to learn form the mistakes of CompUSA. Having worked at a CompUSA myself I can tell you that on a Sunday shift the phrase I said most often was
we don't have any of those
Which was often followed by
we didn't have any of them this morning at 11, either
Although from working there I can tell you that, at least in the case of CompUSA, it was not the fault of the store management. Store management would generally see the ads only a few days before the Sunday paper came out with said ad, which was not enough time to order more of whatever item was on the front page.
Rather, in the case of CompUSA, the company rotted from the top. There were purchasers for districts (not stores or even states, but districts) who were responsible for getting enough inventory to the stores. Purchasers of course visited stores... well, I never met our purchaser in over a year of working retail 20-30 hours a week. We (the sales staff) tried to pass up requests to purchasing for items that sold well, but they were never fulfilled. Instead we got pallets of MIDI keyboards and Armageddon soundtracks on CD (I'm not joking here). One time I went back to the store I used to work at, and there was an endcap of radio controlled cars; over near the plasma televisions.
CompUSA. They carried a lot of stuff that Best Buy doesn't, at least in store.
I'm not sure of that, either. One particular example that occurred when I was working for CompUSA was with recordable CDs. Best Buy had 80 minute CDs (remember when that was a big deal?) at least a full month before we did. Some of my coworkers went over there on their breaks and bought spindles of them for their own use.
CompUSA deserved to die due to upper-level incompetence. It was sad that so many good people lost their jobs in the process. By my understanding the good managers that I had at CompUSA (there were some at the store) took jobs at Best Buy before the ship took on too much water. I hope they are still doing alright.
I have noticed that some companies that ship a lot of product have decided to reduce the variety of boxes that they use for shipping, as that makes it easier to buy the boxes and packing material itself. Of course that means that in some cases small objects end up shipped in boxes far, far, larger than needed, but the savings realized by the company that sold the product offsets that cost (both in terms of what they pay for boxes as well as in what they pay people on the line for managing that number of boxes).
For a lot of people the only substantial consumer electronics retailers are best buy and circuit city. After circuit city is officially gone, best buy will have numerous markets without even token competition for consumer electronics (unless you count walmart).
Hence even losing a lousy retailer is still a loss for the consumer. One could potentially expect to see best buy starting to carry even less variety of product, as they won't have much to worry about competing against.
A permanent residency visa is just as good in terms of working and living in the country.
In terms of science funding, it isn't.
If you have a PhD and you want federal funding for your research, almost without exception you must be a citizen. Of course the citizenship requirement doesn't apply if you want to work for someone else, but to truly advance your research in academia, you need to at some point have funding of your own.
The temporary H1-B visa was supposed to be good for seven years. The average age at which H1-Bs come to this country is fresh out of college, so 22-23 years old plus seven years is about thirty.
Though many science PhD programs take around 7 years. Which means you finish your degree and then your H1-B is expired; at which point you have to go back to your "home" country, even though you just spent 7 years working in the US. I know PhD students from eastern European countries who are expected (by the US State Dept) to return to their 2nd-world countries for two years after graduation before they can come back to the US to further their careers in this country.
So if we are discussing the brain drain and immigration, we should really reconsider the way our immigration system works.
... give them their PhD and their citizenship at the same time? If someone came here from another country long enough to earn their PhD, they've already worked here for somewhere around 5-7 years. Why do we make it more difficult for them to stay longer?
Add to that the fact that most grant funding agencies only give grants to citizens, and it isn't hard to figure out why so many people who come here for their PhD from other countries end up leaving afterwards - they finished their PhD and then ran straight into a career roadblock of no fault their own.
Because the United States is the only source for medical advances in the world
Did you somehow reach that odd conclusion by reading what I wrote? Because I said nothing to support such a wholly inaccurate statement. In my own research I have collaborators from several other countries; my statement was indeed more of a criticism of how inadequate our science research funding is in the states, while simultaneously pointing out that the prestige given to private schools is not always deserved.
The universities in the study in question are both public universities. This is government science funding at work; its a shame it isn't US government science funding.
Both could be useful if you live in a populated area and want to avoid speedtraps. However neither will help you after the cop pulls you over and starts writing a ticket. Hence neither actually help to get out of a ticket as the headline here claims for the parking ticket application.
The closest "city" to where I live is barely hanging on to a 6-digit population, having lost over 1/3rd of its population since the 50s (no baby boom here). I would be quite surprised if there was a meaningful number of iPhone users here; add to that the cell phone laws in this state that allow cops to pull you over just for holding your phone while driving (even if you are doing nothing else wrong) and the likelihood of there being much adoption for those here is likely very low.
After all, some people get ticketed for other things that they would like to be able to get out of. If an iPhone could get me out of a speeding ticket I would buy one today.
What the hell is this ESP that Microsoft is or is not developing? Are we talking about mind reading, or is it just a clever marketing acronym? Being as it is associated with Flight Simulator, the latter seems more likely; but we are talking about Microsoft here.
I had to look up Rambus, as I had thought they had fallen off the face of the earth. It would seem that now their main business strategy lies in suing other companies.
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Personally, I practically never take a coat _on_ an airplane
Generally I would say that is a good idea. And being as winter is almost over it soon won't matter. However, in my own experience I would say I tend to end up boarding from the tarmac (rather than the jetway) on average about 60% of the time, and that fraction doesn't change appreciably one way or the other as the seasons change. While the tarmac isn't that bad on its own, I seem to always end up delayed on the tarmac waiting to get on the plane, while they position the staircase, deal with gate-check (tarmac-check, really) baggage, wait for slow-moving passengers to find their seats, etc... A couple minutes exposed to tarmac weather can really mess up the traveling mojo.
Of course, it can become a chicken-and-egg sort of problem, if I'm waiting on the tarmac because all the passengers that were ahead of me in line are taking off their coats on the plane and stuffing them overhead before everyone is even on the plane.
So really, that saves you how much inconvenience? I think I'd prefer to go with a cheaper bag and keep the remainder for airport food while I wait the required 1-2 hours for my domestic flight.
I didn't see anything about them picking this up from multiple keyboards. It isn't that often that you encounter one person on one computer, really. I suspect it could be quite a bit more difficult to figure out the typing of 4 users sitting around you at the airport with laptops (to say nothing of the probable response in an airport elicited by someone using an oscilloscope).
Really worked well for these guys, and of course these guys, too. Sounds like a great idea to apply to more retailers. I wonder, can I buy an extended warranty on a case of pens from Office Depot as well? Damned things keep breaking on me.... And how about these? They might break, too.
They would've gained more ground by propping up Buckley's corpse.
They've done frighteningly well with puppet presidents in recent memory (Reagan, Bush II, in particular). One would have expected that after turning John Sidney McCain III into a marionette that they would have done quite well there as well. Really, what could have possibly gone wrong with that iron-clad plan?
Of course, McCain also joined in McCain-Feingold, so clearly he's not a conservative barometer.
As I recall McCain helped with that in 2002, before opposing it while running for president in 2008. So a more accurate statement might be:
McCain joined in McCain-Feingold in 2002, before making himself a conservative barometer and opposing it in 2008
The National Institutes of Health just announced the NIH Challenge Grants that is used for doling out stimulus money to small projects. In it they identified several high-priority topics, which if you look through, you will find includes Information Technology for Processing Health Care Data.
So there certainly is money available for this type of work. And for those not familiar with grant funding by the US government, the NIH is the single largest grant provider for the life science in the US.
even a onboard NIC might be problematic
I have several systems with onboard NICs, and even onboard wireless NICs, that worked fine right off the bat.
desktop oriented FreeBSD (that's not their goal either, but I digress)
Their motto still is
The Power To Serve
So I would say they aren't all that worried about desktop, yes
I think an argument could be made that anyone who loads FreeBSD on their desktop probably didn't really understand the purpose of FreeBSD to begin with...
don't have the right hardware
It is almost more difficult to find wrong hardware for FreeBSD. Granted, it doesn't support quite as many systems as NetBSD, but unless you are running something quite odd it is likely you can run FreeBSD on it. Hell, most systems that are being thrown away right now can run it just fine.
FreeBSD 7.1 was released for:
And if you happen to be running an Alpha, you can still run FreeBSD 6.3
because of their pour stocking policy, especially with respect to sales. To have a sale on an item, and then only have 5 of them in stock is ridiculous.
In that regard, circuit city failed to learn form the mistakes of CompUSA. Having worked at a CompUSA myself I can tell you that on a Sunday shift the phrase I said most often was
we don't have any of those
Which was often followed by
we didn't have any of them this morning at 11, either
Although from working there I can tell you that, at least in the case of CompUSA, it was not the fault of the store management. Store management would generally see the ads only a few days before the Sunday paper came out with said ad, which was not enough time to order more of whatever item was on the front page.
... well, I never met our purchaser in over a year of working retail 20-30 hours a week. We (the sales staff) tried to pass up requests to purchasing for items that sold well, but they were never fulfilled. Instead we got pallets of MIDI keyboards and Armageddon soundtracks on CD (I'm not joking here). One time I went back to the store I used to work at, and there was an endcap of radio controlled cars; over near the plasma televisions.
Rather, in the case of CompUSA, the company rotted from the top. There were purchasers for districts (not stores or even states, but districts) who were responsible for getting enough inventory to the stores. Purchasers of course visited stores
CompUSA. They carried a lot of stuff that Best Buy doesn't, at least in store.
I'm not sure of that, either. One particular example that occurred when I was working for CompUSA was with recordable CDs. Best Buy had 80 minute CDs (remember when that was a big deal?) at least a full month before we did. Some of my coworkers went over there on their breaks and bought spindles of them for their own use.
CompUSA deserved to die due to upper-level incompetence. It was sad that so many good people lost their jobs in the process. By my understanding the good managers that I had at CompUSA (there were some at the store) took jobs at Best Buy before the ship took on too much water. I hope they are still doing alright.
I have noticed that some companies that ship a lot of product have decided to reduce the variety of boxes that they use for shipping, as that makes it easier to buy the boxes and packing material itself. Of course that means that in some cases small objects end up shipped in boxes far, far, larger than needed, but the savings realized by the company that sold the product offsets that cost (both in terms of what they pay for boxes as well as in what they pay people on the line for managing that number of boxes).
Where do EE majors work now? The wife is looking for work.
Clearly, you jest. You really expect us to believe you are married and you read slashdot?
Why is their death sad?
For a lot of people the only substantial consumer electronics retailers are best buy and circuit city. After circuit city is officially gone, best buy will have numerous markets without even token competition for consumer electronics (unless you count walmart).
Hence even losing a lousy retailer is still a loss for the consumer. One could potentially expect to see best buy starting to carry even less variety of product, as they won't have much to worry about competing against.
Symantec tried to steel my customers!
Last time I tried to contact them they just wanted to iron me.
For those who don't want to go through several pages of ads, is here.
After all, the Naval Observatory was blurred when Cheney lived there. If his house is a target, shouldn't we be protecting all houses?
A permanent residency visa is just as good in terms of working and living in the country.
In terms of science funding, it isn't.
If you have a PhD and you want federal funding for your research, almost without exception you must be a citizen. Of course the citizenship requirement doesn't apply if you want to work for someone else, but to truly advance your research in academia, you need to at some point have funding of your own.
The temporary H1-B visa was supposed to be good for seven years. The average age at which H1-Bs come to this country is fresh out of college, so 22-23 years old plus seven years is about thirty.
Though many science PhD programs take around 7 years. Which means you finish your degree and then your H1-B is expired; at which point you have to go back to your "home" country, even though you just spent 7 years working in the US. I know PhD students from eastern European countries who are expected (by the US State Dept) to return to their 2nd-world countries for two years after graduation before they can come back to the US to further their careers in this country.
So if we are discussing the brain drain and immigration, we should really reconsider the way our immigration system works.
... give them their PhD and their citizenship at the same time? If someone came here from another country long enough to earn their PhD, they've already worked here for somewhere around 5-7 years. Why do we make it more difficult for them to stay longer?
Add to that the fact that most grant funding agencies only give grants to citizens, and it isn't hard to figure out why so many people who come here for their PhD from other countries end up leaving afterwards - they finished their PhD and then ran straight into a career roadblock of no fault their own.
Because the United States is the only source for medical advances in the world
Did you somehow reach that odd conclusion by reading what I wrote? Because I said nothing to support such a wholly inaccurate statement. In my own research I have collaborators from several other countries; my statement was indeed more of a criticism of how inadequate our science research funding is in the states, while simultaneously pointing out that the prestige given to private schools is not always deserved.
The universities in the study in question are both public universities. This is government science funding at work; its a shame it isn't US government science funding.
There's Trapster and NMobile to start...
Both could be useful if you live in a populated area and want to avoid speedtraps. However neither will help you after the cop pulls you over and starts writing a ticket. Hence neither actually help to get out of a ticket as the headline here claims for the parking ticket application.
The closest "city" to where I live is barely hanging on to a 6-digit population, having lost over 1/3rd of its population since the 50s (no baby boom here). I would be quite surprised if there was a meaningful number of iPhone users here; add to that the cell phone laws in this state that allow cops to pull you over just for holding your phone while driving (even if you are doing nothing else wrong) and the likelihood of there being much adoption for those here is likely very low.
Use Your IPhone To Get Out Of A Parking Ticket
After all, some people get ticketed for other things that they would like to be able to get out of. If an iPhone could get me out of a speeding ticket I would buy one today.
What the hell is this ESP that Microsoft is or is not developing? Are we talking about mind reading, or is it just a clever marketing acronym? Being as it is associated with Flight Simulator, the latter seems more likely; but we are talking about Microsoft here.
I had to look up Rambus, as I had thought they had fallen off the face of the earth. It would seem that now their main business strategy lies in suing other companies.